as radical islam is a real victory in syria fears moen to the country's chemical weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists. damascus serves it's being framed by the way it switches trying to create a deceived rich as a pretext for intervention all the details coming up. while a surge of forces u.k. taxpayers should tighten their belts r t looks at how big corporations are using legal loopholes to avoid paying their share. and securities stepped up in the capital as it braces for clashes between supporters and opponents of the country's new constitution.

you're watching r t live from moscow with me to obama sacre to have you with us in syria radical islamists have reportedly captured a key military base in the country's north they claimed advances storage of fears the country's chemical weapons stockpiles could potentially fall into militant hands archie's middle east correspondent policy or has the latest. now this comes as the damascus regime increasingly accuses both the e.u. and the united states of conducting a smear campaign against it in terms of falsely accusing damascus of using chemical weapons the syrian foreign ministry has written a number of letters to the united nations in which it says that it is afraid that countries backing both terrorists and terrorism might them selves provide those

countries with chemical weapons and then shift the blame and point fingers towards syria there is of course growing concern that the chemical weapons stockpiles within syria could land up in the hands of extreme militants in here we've been hearing reports of both al qaida as well as hizbullah in the south operating and lending their support to the insurgency and so there's concern that these weapons could land specifically in their hands the united states for its side says it has intelligence that the syrian army may be preparing to use chemical weaponry and again the u.s. has pushed the line that this would be a red line if indeed it was proven and that this would bring in the reaction and the immediate involvement of the united states we are hearing from a u.s. official as well as senior administration officials that the u.s. and the european union are training rebels both within jordan and turkey in terms of trying to secure these stockpiles of chemical weapons within syria now it is

important to make note that none of these reports in terms of chemical weapons can be verified what we do know is that so there has one of the world's largest chemical weapon arsenals so it has never joined the chemical weapons convention and as such it is never given any kind of information in terms of the extended to the declaration of its chemical weapons and this is why at this stage it is exactly what is the extent of the chemical weapons and in his hands they are all they said he is an information war out there and we are witnessing an increasing number of videos be. posted on you tube you have a situation where both sides the damascus regime as well as the rebels are accusing the other of blood chilling atrocities as well as war crimes and let me just warn our viewers that the videos you're about to see are disturbing there is a video that is circulating on you tube that shows that assad troops are using chemical weapons and when you look at this video you see disturbing pictures of both adults but also children with disfigured face faces as well as and incredible

lose to the bodies there is of course also videos of rebels reportedly using chemical weapons on bunny's as almost a great against the assad regime that this is just what they planning on doing the rebels have also been posting videos of innocent victims of aerial bombings as well as share means while at the same time pro assad activists have been posting on you tube videos of rebels making a child behaves in a number of prisoners now according to the information but this report it did happen in homes what we do so you know the video is a number of beheaded victims we see the child actually beheading this person but again no way of indicating or verifying exactly the crew thought this although some sources say that there were people with saudi accidents being heard inside this video all of this is extremely disturbing footage again no way of verifying its authenticity but it certainly does show that tensions on the ground are increasing

and increasing and alarming rate. as u.s. sources say washington is training rebels to secure and handle chemical weapons against the syrian regime collapses some observers are now convinced that a foreign intervention is in the making. this period right now and the talk of weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons in syria is very reminiscent of the run up to the anglo-american attack on iraq in two thousand and three one of those videos purported to show syrian insurgents funded by the west preparing chemical weapons which we use on rabbits but could be used on syrian civilians and then blamed on the syrian government the assad government is not suicidal it has been playing its cards very carefully and there is no basis in fact for the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government that would be counterproductive the weapons of mass destruction are argument used so effectively in two thousand

and three and later found out to be a complete hoax they've just they've tried it out of the dustbin and their plan to rerun it again. while ordinary people endure life in austerity reg britain it seems are some corporate giants will stop at nothing to get out of paying their share takes a void in costs of the dead stricken country tens of billions of pounds a year on a figure that's no longer being tolerated as our teeth are further report. people from all of that will tend not to protect this country it's with this company it's like starbucks and apple google at the moment it's really part of a much larger picture welcome to the world of tax avoidance illegal but morally suspect way the companies and the wealthy have been dodging paying their fair share most people are due to discuss these companies do not the very taxation which is

a criminal offense but are void taxation basically use existing facilities and legal loopholes in the different regulation and taxation between different countries to their advantage companies like amazon the head office is based in luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as luxembourg so well known in tax haven where companies can enjoy a low tax rate but hang on a minute here one of amazon's massive this to be sentence is based in the u.k. in fact the reality is that many of our customers most of their employees and many more distribution centers like this while are in fact based here in the united kingdom so it's not hard to see that the relatively small luxembourg office is nothing fact as they say at the heart of their operations and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognise as ordinary british taxpayers who are losing

out at a time illegal on the face of it to run because you could register your transaction in different country and the place of destruction is the place of taxation whereas you can have your activities actually taking place here is legal. surely then in the midst of a flat lining economy the u.k. government would be eager to plug the holes it's listing billions of much needed tax plans really can't. fit in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the panelists on welfare he were in the government's firing line why has this government decided to clamp down on benefits for clamping down on multi-million pound tax avoiders. well i think that the government is clamping down on that

there's been a lot of money allocated by. their accounting and now that people know that. morsi or doing that they're doing it now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it of the pay and there's a difference between people who are. voiding tax through judum it remains those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when you're a citizen there are no less diluting payware interested me again today let me actually answer the question once before you actually interrupt tax avoid it's ok to legally tell you what starbucks amazon and google have been doing is ok's that you say i said there's a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion tax evasion is illegal tax avoidance people are using the law to their benefit now if the law is wrong we need to change the law but for now the law continues to allow an exodus of profits made

in britain meaning companies like amazon can keep getting away with paying less than the tax payers they're profiting from sarah firth r.t. london. the european union three presidents have received this year's nobel peace prize on behalf of member states the year has been given the award in recognition for fostering peace if only for the prizes handed out the decision is bound to mess indignation throughout europe several previous winners wrote an open letter to the nobel foundation demanding that the blood be stripped of the award ahead of sunday's ceremony hundreds marjoe through the norwegian capital in protest john locke learned from the institute of democracy and cooperation believes peace is one of the last things the e.u. should be rewarded for so there has not been peace in europe for the last sixty years as the president of the european council said everybody knows that there was

a war against yugoslavia eventually don't you know in which european states e.u. member states participated very fully they attacked you. so one cannot say that there has been pieces. since then in any case if we look further afield with syria the european union's policy the actual policy of the european union as an organization never mind its member states has been in my view to fan the flames of the conflict in syria and not to act as a peace broker so there is literally no way in which we can say that the european union has fostered peace. also i have for you this hour the security tie does in egypt as more protests loom supporters than of phonons of president mohamed morsi to confront each other again as the nation readies for a referendum on a draft constitution plus. she says well you will have no brit. said wait a minute what do you mean she said you will never know. barbara from having the

baby we see of the victims of the usa eugenics program have any chance of having their personal tragedies recognize the story in a much more after a short break. an artist was arrested for putting up posters critical of drone usage all over new york city the poster show a menacing drone shooting a missile at innocent children with the words drones protection when you least expect it written at the bottom these posters definitely reflect a lot of americans fears that a big brother skynet will completely eliminate the very concept of privacy and free speech so to prove that americans live in a free country without any government spying he had why p.t. hunted down the anonymous artist and arrested him for expressing himself having

arrested him at his residence they charged him with fifty six counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument grand larceny possession of stolen property and weapons possession for having a deadly terrorist weapon and unloaded twenty two caliber pistol although being in jail won't be pleasant perhaps arzt s m a t actually in the end it got what he wanted he proved to the world that big brother surveilled him and arrested him all for throwing up a few posters looks like he proved his point but that's just my opinion. admission free accreditation free zones for charges free. range months of free risk free studio time free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media don to

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more news today violence has once again fled up the from these are the images kobold have been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are the day. it was hilarity deny the chance of a baby a decades long program all for sterilization in america left tens of thousands of women i'm able to have children once promoted as a way to build a healthy nation it's only recent the traumatized victims of the eugene ex-pro gram while being considered for compensation i did learn about ny i went to meet one of those who had their lives changed by compulsory birth control. you are warner of

our paper see eighty four year old virginia brooks was just fourteen years old when north carolina's widespread eugenics program would forever alter her future i said why don't i have to go to the hospital i'm not saying. rocks was with two other girls when a social worker picked her up she said we're gonna take you pin so they took me now in there and they did surgery. and in no way do was doing to me eugenics is a pseudo science aimed at improving the so-called quality of the population by forcibly preventing reproduction by people thought by some to be inferior in america it targeted mostly young poor minorities the mentally disabled or those otherwise deemed unfit to raise children like brooks who was an orphaned teenager she came in my chart was on the foot of. it she says well you know what you know biden well you won't have no bridge. i said what

a way to make it one the you mean she said you you will never know. and there's one one handed to me this is an angle of this that the grand bronx went on to adopt a little girl and mary howard her husband of forty two years between them they have four grandchildren five great grandchildren and the unfortunate legacy of suffering under the shadow of mandatory sterilization. or or or a way she was free from modern should be. a fresh day that anything new they should. probably one of the most infamous uses of this theory was the radical purity programs in nazi germany. while north carolina's eugenics program reportedly claimed seven thousand six hundred victims before being dissolved in one thousand nine hundred seventy

seven north carolina was one of thirty two american states that practiced eugenics and this year it was on track to be the first state to compensate living victims like brooks with a payout of up to fifty thousand dollars they were going to animals. except that they were born this kind of genius they. can do better than this. shame. to this day not one victim throughout the united states has been compensated for their lifelong suffering in june north carolina state senate rejected proposals to allocate funding for the compensation program some argue that paying victims for what was a legal program could lead to subsequent payouts tied to america's other historic atrocities such as slavery seven decades ago this building served as baker senatorial it's where state officials took virginia brooks and dozens of other

young girls to undergo mandatory sterilization surgery today it serves as an apartment complex where families are living routine lives this as others still bear deep scars over how their lives were forever changed here they had a baby and kid of the people. my be like they're. a life changing question which u.s. state officials refused to answer for her in a port archie north carolina. minorities are calm right now the u.s. navy has sent two additional warships to the north korean shores as washington prepares for possible rocket launch by the communist state. plans after granting asylum or to top was a blower julian assange jacket of continues its open door policy by now is next on the country's most welcome list online. nine people have been

hurt after unknown attackers fired at protesters camped out in cairo central tokyo square this comes as egypt gears up for another day of protests by the opposition and supporters of president morsi the end wrestles part after morsi granted himself extensive powers and put a new constitution to the vote he later bag tracked on some of the decrees a budget left the referendum intact they just your leader has now given the military temporary powers tourists civilians in the run up to the vote raising opposition fears that the country's turning to an islamist dictatorship earlier my colleague kevin no wouldn't talk to a journalist khaled el sunny who things morsi is draft a constitution of a nation on the brink of civil war. situation. actually has not been discussed.

the country. will probably. be country. we don't really know. because. many judges are still refusing to supervise it which will make it illegal if it happens all the. judiciary supervision what's your view on the opposition and their stance they're blaming the government for dividing the country but why can't they make some concessions and agree to dialogue instead of pushing for more protests there is no point. to be afraid. of people who go to the.

people of egypt feel that. we always have weak weak political parties and we have a strong civil society in. which the. people of egypt have enough to. treat. someone who want to be. we. have our freedom we are not going to. the legal woes of the former international monetary fund chief dominic straws com sex abuse accusations in the u.s. have apparently come to an end the new york hotel maid that accused a frenchman up sexual assault has withdrawn her civil lawsuit for an undisclosed

it's remeasure amount to up to six million u.s. dollars the scandal casseroles can have position at the top of the international monetary fund and stifled his presidential ambitions at home he can still face other charges of being behind that alleged prostitution ring in fronts. the prime minister of mali has resigned in a state t.v. broadcasts just hours after his arrest late on monday. diarra was detained by members of the citizens' groups backed by the country's military he was pushing a un back resolution for international military intervention to help regain control of mali's north al-qaeda linked militants took control of the area during a march. on the way our regular financial check up from washington lauren lyster. looters that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these paul it's no prepackaged confort but they joy is

a while these guaranteed guinea's a zoology professor he works in the u.s. and travels to these remote areas in russia every summer as he says he come find untouched landscapes like these anywhere else in the world. we're going off the list below sea line. if i go wrong the wrong and surprising will go straight to the water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper failed. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot a grizzly here by every small weaver put forth of bears of course what they have a very good sense of well will be able to think i will have to keep an eye a wind direction and the best of them and both up all that could be dangerous so we

won't go yes we shall but people require. it. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away they're usually the first to avoid contact with humans but during spawning time when both people and bears go fishing people often shoot at them to scare them away and every year here in the region you hear about someone being killed by the predators. but at the mugger down nature reserve where we are no one disturbs the bears peanuts another local resident to haiti's peace being disturbed here is the howlers eagle in has a wingspan of two and a half meters ignace only here in russia far east because of the bundles of salmon and seagulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here mara island it has the biggest colony

of seagulls in the region and the climb up was tough. but the prize was worth it. if there was no security here you would. have tons of people coming here out just to get some for only on the beach here nothing is guaranteed you have to struggle to get your piece of bread there is nothing really all you can fly on oprah did you have to rely on yourself to back. up to be the bad. maybe for the wildlife here is the lack of scissors is to the better but when you stand on top of this you just can't help wanting to share the beauty.

good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren mr here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for monday december tenth two thousand while gold rises said some headlines today citing italian technocrat prime minister mario monti has plans to resign also expectations of fed easing regardless it was actually fairly so why has the yellow metal been trading sideways for pretty much the past year and a half as the s. and p. five hundred has gained a very respectable twenty five percent clear from commodities legend eric sprott about that and about silver to u.s. and u.k. regulators have reportedly published a joint paper they wrote about it on the pages of the op ed pages rather of the financial times to deal with too big to fail banks that need to well fail it's a first cross border plan it includes losses for shareholders removing senior

management and converting debt into equity to provide capital now capital is one solution to mitigate the liability of massive credit expansion only we had hard money though we'll break that down for you where the day and while we're on all that glitters check out this trip to the vault. it's enormously impressed steve because it's a big brother like a movie with. the dead go way to for people to remember it's. kind of a funny video you'll never guess where that was we'll tell you and have more in loose change let's get to today's capital account.

we have plenty of news events like some i mentioned in headlines to create uncertainty in this economy to send investors running to safe havens and an asset we've seen react in the past in gold sure it's up a little today but looking back it's nothing like this tear it was on gold has traded at another record one thousand six hundred forty five dollars an ounce gold posted a new record high of one thousand eight hundred fifteen dollars an ounce in the one place people are going is gold gold is trading solidly above eighteen hundred dollars an ounce it's now up more than fifty percent in the last year remember all that that was in the summer of two thousand and eleven surrounding the u.s. debt ceiling debate and the downgrade and gold even topped one thousand nine hundred dollars an ounce at some point way out here while you can see it's come down from there and it's pretty much where it was about a year ago despite the types of continued news event.